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Natuurlyke historie van de koraal-gewassen, en andere dergelyke zee-lighamen, die men gemeenelyk vind op de kusten van Groot-Brittanien en Ierland : benevens eene beschryving van een grooten zee-polyp, in den zomer van't jaar 1753 by den Noord-Pool door de Walvis-Vangers gevonden

by: Ellis, John, 1710?-1776; Tak, Jan; Kirk, James, engraver; Mynde, J., fl. 1740-1770, engraver; Roberts, Henry, ca. 1710-ca. 1790, engraver; Hartmeyer, Robert, 1874-1923, former owner. DSI; Bayer, Frederick M., former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1756

Topics: Early works to 1800, Pictorial works, Ctenophora, Cnidaria, Bryozoa, Corals, Marine animals

Publisher: In 'sGravenhage : By Pieter de Hondt

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Dutch

Item Size: 119.5M

statement of responsibility: door Jan Ellis ... ; uit het Engels vertaald door Jan Tak

Some plates signed: H. Roberts sculp.; James Kirk sc.; J. Mynde sc

Title printed in red and black; woodcut title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, initials; sidenotes

Errata: at foot of p. xvj

Signatures: *-2*⁴ A-O⁴ P⁴(-P4, blank?)

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SCNHRB copy 39088011917655 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer. Originally with a 35mm slide of a detail from another copy of this work and note to Dr. Bayer laid-in

SCNHRB copy has stamped on front blank: Dr. R. Hartmeyer

SCNHRB copy has possible blank from last gathering bound before frontispiece

SCNHRB copy has pl. XII bound following pl. XIV; pl. XXXVI bound following XXXIII

SCNHRB copy half bound in modern orange cloth and dark blue-gray goatskin, gilt lettering on spine